Aspera On-Demand: High Performance Data Transport for AWS

By enabling the same high-performance data transport technology to, from and between remote cloud infrastructures, Aspera allows AWS users to fully realize the scalability, efficiency gains and cost savings offered by the EC2 and S3 platforms.

Aspera On-Demand runs on EC2 instances and can be used to move large volumes of digital content in and out of AWS, at maximum speed, unaffected by transfer distance and network conditions. Data is written to/read from disk/ EBS & transferred to S3.

Created On:

August 27, 2009 12:43 PM GMT

Last Updated:

August 31, 2009 4:35 PM GMT

Who is Aspera?

Aspera is the creator of next-generation transport technologies that move the world's digital assets at maximum speed, regardless of file size, transfer distance and network conditions. An emerging standard for the high-speed movement of large file data over wide area network, Aspera's fasp technology is used by Fortune 500 corporations, Hollywood studios, major broadcasters, life sciences organizations and government agencies to move terabytes of data on a daily basis. By enabling the same high-performance data transport technology to, from and between remote cloud infrastructures, Aspera allows AWS users to fully realize the scalability, efficiency gains and cost savings offered by the EC2 and S3 platforms.

Why Aspera and AWS?

With Aspera On-demand for AWS, users have the freedom to transfer files at their full bandwidth capacity hundreds of times faster than conventional technologies  with the assurance that highly valuable content will be transported and stored reliably, in total security. Aspera's unprecedented bandwidth control allows users to automatically protect other IP traffic on their WAN link and apply relative prioritization to individual file transfers.

Particularly aimed at data-intensive applications  such as video transcoding, media asset management, 3D animation and visual effects rendering, genomic sequence processing, large database hosting and more  Aspera On-demand for AWS will benefit any workflow involving data transfers to, from and within the cloud, and between remote infrastructures.

Aspera On-Demand: Key Attributes

High-performance fasp transport technology, on-demand

Unprecedented network throughput and efficiency

Unlimited number of concurrent connections

Advanced bandwidth utilization management

Bullet-proof in transit encryption and at rest content security

Industry-standard SSH authentication

Guaranteed, reliable file delivery with 100% data integrity

Workflow automation and integration

Aspera On-Demand: Supported Clients

Aspera Connect (no-charge browser plug-in)

Aspera Enterprise Server

Aspera Point-to-Point

Aspera Client

Aspera On-Demand: AMI Specifications

64-bit Linux OS

Incorporates the Amazon Linux kernel

SE Linux enabled

Automated, at-boot Aspera software updates

RAID local disk configuration (engineered to support the fastest disk i/o)

3 Instance options

Standard Large

Standard Extra Large

High-CPU Extra Large

Comments

This is false advertisement.

This is false advertisement. They do not use S3. All the files are left local on /mny/ephemeral
I contacted the support about this and they said they are still working on it. It's been 2 weeks now.
At least it works.